Hell and damnation : a sinner's guide to eternal torment / Marq de Villiers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Villiers, Marq, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hell.

Future life--History of doctrines.

Future life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 pages)

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In Hell and Damnation, bestselling author Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey into the strange richness of the human imaginings of hell, deep into time and across many faiths, back into early Egypt and the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh. This urbane, funny, and deeply researched guide ventures well beyond the Nine Circles of Dante's Hell and the many medieval Christian visions into the hellish descriptions in Islam, Buddhism, Jewish legend, Japanese traditions, and more."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What kind of place is this?

Who invented hell, and for god's sake why?

Hell-free zones

Where the hell is it?

Who's in charge?

Hell's executive suite

Hell's unruly boardroom fracas

Can there really be romance in the heart of hell?

What's the operating plan?

Once you're in, what's it like? A survey of A-list hells

Eternal torment : who does what to whom, and why

The peculiar physics of hell : how long is forever?

Eyewitness accounts

The watchers and the origin of hell

Hell's earliest tourists

Some buddhists go to hell for the damnedest reasons

Hellish travellers in classical antiquity

Inquisitive Christians go to hell

The great poets as tour guides

A brief detour to heaven

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889775862

0889775869

9780889775855

0889775850

OCLC:

1080223342